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Ebon Clark Ingersoll (December 12, 1831 – May 31, 1879) was a
Ebon Clark Ingersoll (December 12, 1831 – May 31, 1879) was a U.S. Representative
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from Illinois
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and the brother of the politician and orator Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll (; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Personal life
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Born in Dresden, New York, Ingersoll moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1843 and subsequently to Illinois. He pursued classical studies in Peoria, Illinois
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, and in Paducah, Kentucky
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. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar
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in 1854 and commenced practice in Peoria, Illinois
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. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives
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in 1856.
Ingersoll was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Owen Lovejoy
Owen Lovejoy (January 6, 1811 – March 25, 1864) was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, and Republican United States Congress, congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor ...
. He was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses and served from May 20, 1864, to March 3, 1871. He served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Roads and Canals (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. He settled in Washington, D.C.
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, and engaged in the practice of law until his death there on May 31, 1879. A eulogy given at his funeral by his brother Robert was later included in an anthology compiled by Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow (; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high-profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the ...
and Wallace Rice. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Ingersoll had a son, John Carter Ingersoll, who served as the American Consul in Copenhagen, Denmark and Cartagena, Colombia. He died in Colon, Colombia, in 1903.
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